Big Time Monkey Released… Finally
It’s finally done. We’ve put a lot work into this and the last fixes and polishing were really painfull. But what hurt the most was the delayed release date. Sorry for that! The game was praktically finished by the end of February but we still had to clean up a lot of stuff. I also [...]
In: art, games, programming · Tagged with: adventure, Big Time Monkey, Visionaire
“Oh No! Not Another Project!”
Yep, I commited myself to another game project. Doesn’t this guy have enough stuff to work on, you might think. Indeed I do. And yes, I shoud finish some of my work-in-progress-projects first. But unlike all other of my projects this one has a fixed deadline in January 2011. So either it’s done till then [...]
In: art, games, general · Tagged with: adventure, Big Time Monkey, games, programming, Visionaire
Download is an Obstacle
The choice of developing Jester Chip with a ready-made point&click framework is discarded. Those who spend some time on playing short indie games on platforms like Newgrounds, Armor Games or Kongregate probably appreciate the fact, that they don’t have to download executables to their bulky file system. Well, I do. I want to facilitate access [...]
In: games, programming · Tagged with: adventure, flash, FlashDevelop, Jester Chip
Choose Wisely: Adventure Game Engines
As I mentioned before, I’m planing to implement Jester Chip with an existing game engine like AGS (Adventure Game Studio). Such tools save me a lot of programming so I can concentrate more on concrete content. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. While working on the concept and getting started with AGS, other possible [...]
In: games · Tagged with: adventure, AGS, game engine, games, Jester Chip, Wintermute
Jester Chip: Playable Flash Prototype
I’ve decided to release the old Jester Chip flash movie (550 KB), which serves me as a prototype now. It makes a good preview which I didn’t want to withhold. Since Flash doesn’t improve the overall loading time of a homepage, I made the game accessible only in the full view of this post. Those [...]
In: games · Tagged with: adventure, flash, games, Jester Chip
Monkey Island Returns
As I read it on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, it struck me like a bolt of lightning. Two things: There will be another Monkey Island sequel by Telltale Games There will be a remake of the very first original Monkey Island by Lucas Arts Ok, number one wasn’t as exciting as number two. Why? Because there [...]
In: games · Tagged with: adventure, games, Lucas Arts, Monkey Island, Telltale Games
The Adventures of Jester Chip
While getting an overview over my Ouvre of Unfinished Masterpieces (how I call it in a more ironical way – I’m not that vain!) I stumbled upon a little thing which seemed worthy a reanimation. In winter 2006 I started to create a short point & click adventure game in flash. It was supposed to [...]
In: games · Tagged with: adventure, animation, flash, games, Jester Chip
